On 5/21/07, Skyring <skyring(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps you should consider the vast continent of
Wikipedia readers who
don't have accounts (or date preferences), and not the small village of
actual editors with accounts and date preferences set.
Actually, I incorrectly believed that MediaWiki by default chose
American format and would in fact convert these even for anonymous
readers. I just checked, and it turns out I was wrong. I apologize;
since these do not display normally for non logged-in users, I won't
do that in future.
The MOS is a result of collaboration and consensus,
and having to go round
tidying up after people who are trying to make some self-centred point
against consensus is work that I'd prefer not to have to do.
Actually, I don't think the MOS says that any supported date format is
incorrect - at least, it did not when I last read that section. Thus,
entering dates in any supported format is not 'against consensus'.
The entire point of user date preferences and the way they were
implemented was exactly because no consensus on these things could be
reached.
-Matt